Posted on 09/25/2019 3:00:14 PM PDT by ransomnote
Google has announced it has released a data set containing 3,000 deepfake videos it has created. Google hopes the release of the videos will allow researchers to develop ways to combat malicious deepfakes, giving them, news organizations, and the public ways to identify “synthetic” videos—that is videos manipulated by or entirely created using computers.
Deepfakes at first came onto the scene in 2017 and were mainly used in crude, falsified porn videos. The technology originally allowed for people with limited computer skills to easily paste the face of, for example, an actress onto a porn star’s body.
But since then the quality of deepfake videos has rapidly advanced. Matter of fact, it’s now possible to deepfake entire bodies, not just an individual’s head. While deepfake technology has legitimate commercial purposes, many fear it will also lead to a new era of fake news and propaganda where no one will be able to tell if the video they are seeing actually, in fact, ever happened.
In order to ensure that doesn’t become a reality, news organizations, social media networks, and law enforcement will need to come up with ways to easily identify deepfake videos. Google’s trove of data it released yesterday is a first step in helping do just that.
Google’s ministry of fake propaganda.
Hitler (from movie Downfall) deeply sad.
“Don’t be evil,” Google lied.
Where can I watch that?
This could eventually bring us back to a point in the past prior to the invention of video technology. If it becomes impossible to tell if a video was faked, then video will no longer be able to be considered as evidence of anything. It will once again be as if it doesn’t exist. We will have to completely discount video evidence, for example in legal proceedings, unless the provenance of such video can be conclusively proven.
Don’t know how newsworthy this is. Photoshop has been around a long time. It was just a matter of time before the tech made videos easy.
We are headed there in a hurry.
In fact, to amend my previous comment, the same will apply to still photography. It will be like we never invented the camera in any form, because we will only be able to rely on other forms of evidence.
Yep. A crayon drawing will be as believable as future video images.
Is Kodak still in business (on life support)? Might be time to buy their stock. I also have a vision in my head of cops having to mount 8mm movie cameras to their bodies, and change film reels every 3 minutes...lol.
It’s going to make the qanon people unreachable. It’s time to figure out how to start making money off of these people instead of trying to help them.
There was barely a mention of Deep Fakes until after March 6, 2018. Since then there has been a flood. Something spooked the media and Democrats around that time that they have felt this is really important talk about consistently.
Guaranteed media WILL produce video of a younger “Trump” using the N-word AND slapping around a black woman. It WILL be a deep fake, but it will come out Thursday before the election.
but it will come out Thursday before the election.
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I think it will come out sooner. I think they will release a deepfake of POTUS to draw outrage of conservatives immediately ahead of genuine video of Hillary, Lorretta Lynch, Bill. When sane people rightly point to the deepfake of POTUS as false, the DS will counter with, “Oh, you say the video of POTUS is false but the video of Clinton is real? PARTISANSHIP!”
It’s pretty clear what this will be used for. Vipers and weasels, all of them.
Google is trying to get ahead of the curve when the contents of Wiener’s laptop is dumped. The guilty pedos will cry “DeepFakes!”
Leni Riefenstahl would be so proud!
I have info from a trusted source regarding a project related to this.
The objective is how do you take an actual, real video and use software to create a copy of it that current technology will flag as a fake.
Very interesting, don’t you think.
Lie, obfuscate, cheat and steal......Muddy them waters..make the truth and common sense a crime against the state.
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